Opinion

Florida played a large role in pushing President-elect Donald Trump to victory. If the reality show host-turned-leader of the free world makes good on his promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, it's also the Sunshine State that stands to lose the most. More people from Florida than from any other...

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Now that their party is headed for undivided control of the White House and Congress, many Republican officeholders are hoping they will carry out comprehensive tax reform for the first time in 30 years. That group includes one of Florida's U.S. House members, Sarasota's Vern Buchanan. He recently...

Pulse victims are often classified in one of three ways: the dead, the wounded and those who made it out of the night club physically unharmed, but traumatized. Barbara Poma doesn't fit neatly into any of those categories. She wasn't at the club early the morning of June 12 when the shooting started....

Florida's new legislative leaders — Senate President Joe Negron and Speaker of the House Richard Corcoran — are gearing up for the 2017 legislative session. Their most difficult task is crafting a spending plan that addresses the state's most pressing needs, while keeping an eye on future goals...

As a criminal-defense attorney, I've been asked ad nauseam, "How can you represent those people?" I'd like to answer this in more detail. When a terrorist is wounded in a shootout with authorities, he is brought to the emergency room of the nearest hospital and receives treatment from medical professionals...

CHAMP: Ben Johnson: He's retiring at the end of the month after 16 years as Volusia County's sheriff. A Deltona native, Johnson joined the Sheriff's Office in 1971 as a deputy and had worked his way up to lieutenant by his first retirement in 1998. Then he ran and won the top job in 2000, for the...

Opinion & Commentary

A year ago, we chose six Central Floridians to comprise our first Editorial Advisory Board. We’ve met regularly to listen to their critiques and share the inner-workings of our Opinion team — and the newsroom. Now as we consider applicants for the next Advisory Board, our inaugural participants...

A year ago, we chose six Central Floridians to comprise our first Editorial Advisory Board. We’ve met regularly to listen to their critiques and share the inner-workings of our Opinion team — and the newsroom. Now as we consider applicants for the next Advisory Board, our inaugural participants...

A year ago, we chose six Central Floridians to comprise our first Editorial Advisory Board. We’ve met regularly to listen to their critiques and share the inner-workings of our Opinion team — and the newsroom. Now as we consider applicants for the next Advisory Board, our inaugural participants...

A year ago, we chose six Central Floridians to comprise our first Editorial Advisory Board. We’ve met regularly to listen to their critiques and share the inner-workings of our Opinion team — and the newsroom. Now as we consider applicants for the next Advisory Board, our inaugural participants...

A year ago, we chose six Central Floridians to comprise our first Editorial Advisory Board. We’ve met regularly to listen to their critiques and share the inner-workings of our Opinion team — and the newsroom. Now as we consider applicants for the next Advisory Board, our inaugural participants...

A year ago, we chose six Central Floridians to comprise our first Editorial Advisory Board. We’ve met regularly to listen to their critiques and share the inner-workings of our Opinion team — and the newsroom. Now as we consider applicants for the next Advisory Board, our inaugural participants...

Letters & Viewpoints

In most people's eyes, it's quite clear that Michael Slager, the former North Charleston, S.C., cop, had no justification for shooting Walter Scott in the back five times. And all they needed to do was look at the video of the shooting to be certain it was murder. One look, and all doubt is resolved...

Praise for cartoon on Electoral College Your Monday editorial cartoon was the finest your paper has ever published. If there ever was an argument for the Electoral College, it was this cartoon: The thought of being ruled by people who want to make it almost impossible to own a shotgun to protect...

Offensive reference to sex crime An Orlando Sentinel article was published online Wednesday with the headline "Leesburg man accused of having sex with a 10-year-old." The fact the newspaper chose to allow an offensive headline is disturbing. The offense was made again in the third paragraph. ...

Teresa Starbuck doesn't look like a stereotypical coach. She doesn't pace the sidelines during football games or have a whistle on a lanyard around her neck. But Starbuck, a veteran teacher at Lawton Elementary in Oviedo and a 2015-2016 finalist for Seminole County teacher of the year, is a coach...

Low expectations Does House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi remind anyone else of Miss Havisham of Charles Dickens' novel "Great Expectations"? Though I am a conservative, I feel sorry and embarrassed for the Democrats to keep trotting this old war horse out when she has for so long been way beyond...